Today on Boing Boing Gadgets Rob sipped a new variety of Bawls that is root beer-flavored; we spied a concept ring that heats up once a year to remind you of anniversaries; gave the Sony VAIO TZ subnotebook a review, crapware and all; found a long-term review of the SPOT Satellite Messenger emergency beacon; admonished you about the tiny treasures found in our Flickr groups; uncovered a plastic helmet for baseball caps; questioned HP's hazy connection between its new workstations and DreamWorks; pondered some glow-in-the-dark wallpaper; tried to help Rob boost his Wi-Fi while he thought about taxes; considered how long it might take for a company selling Hackintoshes to get crushed under Apple's heel (apparently, not long, as their site is kaput); bowed our head and accepted our fate as servents of a tabletop kaiju miniatures game; discovered the diminutive son of a nose hair trimmer and a pepper mill; found an easy way for you to waste fifty large on skewered junker cars; pined for a motorized, remote-control paintball turret for our very own; looked at Jeff Atwood's numbers on extending laptop battery life (no DVDs, soldier!); simultaneously lusted after the new Sharp/Willcom D4 UMPC while wondering which engineer from Psion was sacrificed on a windy, Japanese mountaintop; discovered that sticking a tube of radium in your eye isn't as harmful as it may at first seem; and noticed that Hasbro has finally seen the light and will be issuing an updated, action-figure-scale version of that old favorite, the big ol' Millenium Falcon. Then some deals and retro links (including insect/bunny men hybrids?)
Today on Boing Boing Gadgets
Listen to Chris Judge explain how God of War's Kratos has changed over the years
The modern God of War franchise is nothing like its previous incarnation. Although both iterations of the game feature Kratos as the series' ruthless protagonist, the original version of God of War was definitely… READ THE REST
The cobble_stone texture that graced so many games.
Play a game from the early 3D era of games and cobble_stone may well lurk somewhere in the blurmapped angles. Here's a history of the vastly overused texture and an… READ THE REST
A programming language to make NES games without learning Assembly
NESFab is a programming language of great specificity: it's for making games on the Nintendo Entertainment System, whose ancient vintage otherwise demands a punishing command of 6502 Assembly. [via Hacker… READ THE REST
Snag this high-performing refurbished MacBook Pro for under $300
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Bring some color into your life this spring with the Nix Mini Sensor V2, now only $59
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Banish bad smells and germs this spring with the VentiFresh ECO, now only $59
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